Not many sixties bands managed to stay popular and appear high on lists twenty years or so afer their debute. Kinks did by often changing style and content, but not necessarily to keep up with surrounding zeitgeists, instead following a more personal agenda. Sometimes a rocky road and not always hitting the public nail, but they did it their way which earned respect and made them popular even into the glossy eighties. This their nineteenth (!) studio album became an American success, reaching #12 on Billboard, with the spawned "Come Dancing" 45 climbing to #6 in US and doing equally well or better on other lists. Back in the days Kinks was one of the roughest British bands, today sometimes seen as the first "punk" outfit or the group that planted the seed which eventually would blossom as British hard rock. Many of the tracks here can be described as hard rock - e.g. "State Of Confusion", "Defenite Maybe", "Labour Of Love", "Young Conservatives" and the Dave Davies sung "Bernadette" - but then sounding a lot more eighties than mid-sixties. I also get a couple of typically wistful Ray Davies ballads like "Property" and "Don't Forget To Dance". But best cut is "Come Dancing"...so simple and melodic, dressed in a carribean outfit, it hits hard immediately and then stays for a very long time. As a whole maybe not their absolutely best, but how could it be with all that fantastic competition from eighteen previous albums? Anyway good listening and a must for any Kinks collection worth the name. Issued and reissued on every possible format all over the world through the years. UK vinyl on Arista (AL 8-8018). Japan 2013 CD on Konk/Universal (UICY 25366) came with four bonus tracks. As this copy has both "Made in Holland" and "NCB" it's a Dutch press made for the Scandinavian market. First with label as shown here in a fully laminated cover with glossy picture/credit inner. (KYX*) (HÖLX*)
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